Jamaica: [c.1806]. "Coote's advance through the army was helped by his family's wealth, including the fortune amassed by his uncle Sir Eyre Coote, of whom he was the eventual heir, but it was his natural leadership ability, professional military skill, and tactical acumen that resulted in commands of increasing responsibility... Read More

A Study in Genetics and Genealogy

[Washington, DC]: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1929. First edition. A Study in Genetics and Genealogy. With signed photo of Davenport dated 1928 laid in and with TLS dated 1941 from Steggerda laid in which encloses the Davenport picture.Read More

Santo Domingo: May 17, 1870. A fascinating unpublished letter from Buenaventura Báez, President of the Dominican Republic ,concerning the proposed annexation of his country by the United States. Baéz (1812-1884), who served 5 non-successive terms as president, was a staunch proponent of annexation — seeing it as a solution to... Read More

Presidents of the Republic of Haiti — A Collection

Most Port-au-Prince: 1812-1916. Presidents of the Republic of Haiti — A Collection. An outstanding collection of Haitian material comprising items signed by 11 presidents:1) ALEXANDRE PETION, president of Haiti 1807-1818. Autograph document signed "Pétion" as president, 6 April 1812, a laissez passer for Mr Douglass, on government business, and noting... Read More

COPY NUMBER ONE

New York: Macmillan, 1971. Portfolio Number 1 inscribed "To Betty and Fairleigh Dickinson. Portfolio No.1." on box and again of the portfolio flap "To Betty and Fairleigh Dickinson with deep gratitude Fritz Henle St Croix 1971. Portfolio No. 1" COPY NUMBER ONE. Henle came to the US in 1936 and... Read More

London: John Murray, 1834. First edition.Journals of "Monk" Lewis' two residences in Jamaica, in 1815-1816 and in 1817. Printed from the manuscript. The author died at sea while returning to England in 1818.Read More

London: Hurst and Blackett, 1867. First edition.Presentation on endpaper "C. Noles 1st Prize for Mental Arith Presented by Mr. Burden of Duke Street Grovenor Square..." ¶He travelled to Jamaica, Haiti which he called "Niggerdom" and the Southern States.Read More

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad: Printed by P.N.M. Publishing Co., Ltd, 1960. First edition.The author was born in Trinidad in 1901. He was a "teacher and Newspaperman, left for England in 1932. In Great Britain, 1932-1938, the United States, 1938-1953, and again in Great Britain, 1953-1958, wrote and radio. Returned to the... Read More

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1880. First edition.The Caribbees refer to the Lesser Antilles. This Ober's first bookFrom 1876 to 1878 he made ornithological surveys to the Lesser Antilles where he discovered 22 bird taxa new to science. Two of them - the Lesser Antillean Flycatcher and the Montserrat Oriole... Read More

à Geneve: Chez Jean-Leonard Pellet, Imprimeur de la Ville & de l'Academie, 1780. Third edition (octavo issue).The celebrated attack on the excesses of European colonial economies, slavery, the complicity of the church, and the ancien régime; the book was condemned and Raynal was obliged to leave France.Read More

New York: Julian Messner, [1935]. First Edition.With TLS and watercolour at top. Laid in is a watercolour of two native ladies with paraphenalia on their heads, smoking "To Market at Dominic." Signed and dated 1937.Read More